If you tell your server at the beginning of a meal "I have this and that allergy" then that is totally acceptable. Having allergies isn't the same as being picky or wanting stuff changed around. Just be reasonable when the server offers suggestions, and try not to make a totally new entree out of the menu parts.

Because the restaurant expects to sell X amount of rice with X plates of chicken. Guaranteed, your one serving of rice might not tip the scales, but a restaurant only preps so much of each thing. If a side specifically comes with only one entree, then they've prepped enough for the number of that entree they expect to…

Yeah, but that's a bit different from a standalone sit-down restaurant, and I bet your manager still wouldn't be happy if the whole party bought McDonald's but decided they liked the tables in your restaurant better. It's one thing for restaurants to make small exceptions in the general "no outside food" rule in the…

From a legal standpoint, it's a liability issue. The kitchen can't know what's actually in the couple's food or if the given cooking directions are correct, so if the couple was to get sick (or fake sick as part of a scam, I suppose) the restaurant could be in trouble.

Because usually plays do allow a certain amount of interpretation and change on the part of the performers? It's not the same sort of art form as a novel, painting, etc. There's nothing at all unusual about plays being shortened or lengthened, or having lines or setting altered.

There's a difference between saying "you are not allowed to talk about your vagina" and "please don't conflate vaginas and womanhood" and it seems like the latter is what's being said here. The Vagina Monologues have empowered a great number of women, but I don't think you can read them without seeing the…

I'm not a huge reader of Marvel fanfic (more of a DC girl, really) but I always found the intersex Loki idea charming both because there aren't a lot of intersex characters out there and because I think it's a bit ridiculous to conclude that all non-human races in comics have the same sort of genitals as humans. That…

Oh god, yes. I feel like this is where a lot of (straight, mostly) female fanfic writers go wrong—they don't pay appropriate attention to the line between fiction and real life. Like conflating cute fanfic tropes with what actual gay men do in their lives, or deciding that writing fanfic makes them an expert on gay…

I don't think that anyone is saying that consumers should never sue, or that products shouldn't be expected to do what is advertised, but surely most people would know that an $8 pair of tights is not going to get rid of all your foot problems. It's like buying one of those x-ray specs out of the back of a comic book…

When I worked at a public library (a very large one I might add, the main one for that county) I had a woman who actually threatened to sue when she learned that I had not personally read each and every book in our catalogue because it was "false advertising."

Yeah, I know, but I consider it my patriotic duty to go on a Quixotic troll-converting mission once in awhile. :P

Oklahoma is lucky they don't have lower average temperatures. If a state with actual snowfall banned hoods the capital would be burned down by angry mobs.

Again, feminism is called feminism because women tend to suffer the brunt of gender discrimination. Also, there's just the basic fact of continuity (why didn't "progressive" ever catch on after the 1920's? Probably because everyone was just used to saying "Democrat" and stuck with it). There are plenty of words that…

The writer was utilizing a rhetorical strategy called hyperbole. Sheesh.

It's like producing "jalapeno" like "jah-lah-pen-oh." It's just ignorance, not any sort of actual regional speaking pattern.

I think they're giving less informed servers weird ideas about what gluten is and isn't too. I had a server at a cafe today insist that their bread was "partially gluten free!" because it was made from "spelt, not wheat!" I couldn't get her to believe me that spelt was wheat and there's no such thing as partially…

To be exact, I didn't say you were an MRA (not knowing you, I have no idea how you choose to label yourself) but you are ascribing to the MRA fearmongering narrative that perpetuates a culture of misogyny and harms both women and men. For instance, you seem to believe that feminism is about degrading men for the…

Those people drive me nuts. They're essentially questioning the ability of courts to do the very thing high courts in this country are supposed to do.

You know, I've read this comment three times trying to understand how you got from minimum wage to MRA scare-fiction but I think I'm just going to hand you a tinfoil hat instead. You should really consider staying off the internet if it upsets you so much.

That makes no sense. Companies don't hire double the number of people they need to function. If a company can afford to drop half their workforce, they had waaaay too many extra employees.